The Tabloid Bible is a fresh and funny take on biblical literacy. Humorist Nick Page, who happens to take the Bible very seriously, captures perfectly the deadpan style of popular, sensational tabloids found in supermarket checkout lanes everywhere in his retelling of major biblical events from Genesis to Revelation.
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Nick Page is a professional writer, broadcaster, and creative consultant. He is the author of several books, including The Tabloid Shakespeare and Blue. He lives in England.
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Nick Page is a writer, information designer, and creative consultant. He has written a number of books, including street life, The Tabloid Bible, Lord Minimus, BLUE, and The Church Invisible. He also writes regular articles for Youthwalk, Christianity & Renewal, and works for a number of charities and NGOs. He and his wife, Claire, have three daughters and live in Eynsham in Oxfordshire, England.
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Attacks tabloid folly without demeaning the source material.,
By John I. Carney (Shelbyville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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I read the original British version of this while preparing to interview Nick Page for "The Door," a religious satire magazine. This is a wonderful, funny book -- but Page is careful to make fun of tabloid attitudes and stupidity, not the Bible stories themselves. Not to be missed.
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Read this with a tongue in cheek. Didn't find anything offensive against God (however you see it) - instead puts some of the Old Testament stories in what would be published in today's media (newspaper) about the follies of the human being - shows the human nature from the absurd to the divine - both loving and foolish. Laughed, giggled, got bored sometimes, but generally viewed with a loving heart at the living journey each of us takes in this life.
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The Bible as you've never seen it before,
By Michael Grant "(no, not that Michael Grant, h... (Trinovant, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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<em>The Tabloid Bible</em> is exactly what it says on the tin: the stories of the Bible presented in tabloid format. I encountered this book in a study session on the Tower of Babel. "TOWERING CONFUSION" yells the headline. "Tower of Babel Crashes; Project Ends In Chaos":The Tower of Babel project has collapsed due to what the management team called "an unprecedented communication breakdown."And so on, until:The project was finally abandoned yesterday after a statement by the managing director at a packed shareholders meeting."Xxyshhibbothuth mi varg," he said. No translation was available.At the bottom of the page is an advert: Luxury apartments and houses in the rural paradise of Sodom and Gomorrah. 4 and 5 bedroom homes available. Luxury fitted kitchens, jacuzzis, and those "fun" rooms for all manner of "adult" entertainment. [...] <em>Sodom and Gomorrah--Building a Better Class of Home in the Gutter.</em>...And you know what the headline on the next page is going to be, don't you... <em>The Tabloid Bible</em> is pure, unmitigated fun: "JESUS FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND" runs a headline quoted on the back cover; "'He Cut The Bread Very Thin,' Claim Skeptics." The book captures the essence of each Bible story in no more than a page and a half. Whilst it pokes fun at its source material, projecting twentieth century culture willy-nilly back onto the Biblical stories, and shows the typical partisanship of tabloid newspapers--sometimes in favour of the Biblical characters, sometimes against them--it is never disrespectful to the Bible or Judaism and Christianity. Indeed, Biblical text is often sneaked in in quotations attributed to people on the scene of each story. My one, small, criticism is that occasionally the text seems a bit immature. This book is ideal for everyone from teenagers in need of a way to relate to the Bible, to people like me who know most of the stories back-to-front anyway. This edition is a bit of an odd bird: the original edition is British, and whilst the text has undergone a surface-level Americanisation--USAn spelling introduce, along with references to "mom" and "bowl" championships--it remains riddled with references USAn readers might not get, for example to the Millennium Dome. In summary: highly recommended, but if you don't want to take my word for it, have a preview of its content. <tt>:o)</tt>
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